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Widespread but scattered in the South. Sparse in the North. Habitat includes: under stones, wood, grassland, chalk downland, heathland etc. Seen late Spring to Early Autumn (Peaks in late spring / early summer and late summer / early autumn). Head is narrowed and quite pointed. Almost uniformly black only the tarsi being slightly browner.

ID: Z. apricorum

Tibial apophysis straight. Embolus distally with lobe-shaped apophysis. Anterior cuticular fold of epigyne parallel to posterior cuticular fold. Opisthosoma brown-black with dark brown scuticula. Body length male: 5.1-8.2 mm Body length female: 5.4-9.8 mm

open forests, grass heathland and dry meadows

Z. latreillei

Embolus short and rod-shaped. Epigyne with several transverse, curved cuticular folds below ear-shaped protrusion. Colour dark red-brown to brown-black. Femur I with bright yellow spot. Tarsus light. Opisthosoma male: with scuticula. Body length male: 4.5-7.5 mm Body length female: 5.3-9.5 mm

In dry and humid habitats, in open places, bogs and forests

Zelotes apricorum/subterraneus sens.lat., sensu Bristowe, 1939  
Zelotes apricorum // dusky orange tarsi (bottom of legs)
Zelotes civicus /x
Zelotes electus xx
Zelotes latreillei //
Zelotes longipes /x
Zelotes petrensis /x
Zelotes subterraneus /x